John Michael Dudley is a physicist and currently Professor of Physics at the University Bourgogne Franche-Comté working at the joint University-CNRS research Institute FEMTO-ST in Besançon, France.
[1] After attending high school at De La Salle College in Mangere, South Auckland, Dudley obtained B.Sc.
[4] He served as Steering Committee Chair of the International Year of Light 2015 until its successful completion and oversaw the delivery of its Final Report in 2016.
[8] Dudley was nominated to the French research body the Institut Universitaire de France in 2005 and elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (FOSA) in 2007.
He was an IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2008-2010 and is past Chair of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society.